Turi
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Turi has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.
Babies named Turi, 1971
1 in 343,000
Turi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Turi over time
In 2014, Turi went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Turi?
Turi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 343,000
- 10 of 3,432,187 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 166,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 237,902 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Turi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 237,902 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Turi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Turis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Turi was born before 1971 — so the typical Turi is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 19
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Turi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1971 (10)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Turi
Turi is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 26.7% against Turi's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Turi around the world
Where Turi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Norway1880–1996#554in 1996
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Turi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Turi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Turi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.